Contents

• List of Tables
• Program Development
  • General Programming Conventions
  • In-Line Documentation
    • A Program Example
    • A Subroutine Example
  • Code History
  • Task Version Identification
• MIRIAD Subroutine Library
  • Task Parameters
  • Error Handling
  • Text I/O
  • General Data Set Handling
  • UV Data Sets
    • General
    • Open, Close and Rewind
    • Reading and Writing Visibilities
    • Reading and Writing Continuum Visibilities
    • Direct Access to UV Variables
    • Variable Override
    • UVNEXT
    • Determining UV Variables and Their Characteristics
    • Keeping Track of UV Variables
    • When Do UV Variables Change?
    • Massaging Steps Performed by UVREAD -- UVSET
    • Setting Up UVWRITE -- UVSET
    • Selection Steps Performed by UVREAD -- UVSELECT
    • Getting Information After UVREAD
  • UV Selection -- SelInput and SelApply
  • The UVDAT routines
  • Image Data Sets
  • Image Coordinate System
  • Region of Interest and Pixel Blanking
    • Regular Regions of Interest
    • Arbitrary Regions of Interest and Blanking Information
    • Reading and Writing Blanking Information
  • Scratch Files
  • General Item Routines
  • History Item
  • Low Level I/O Routines
  • Numeric Routines
    • FFT Routines
    • Min and Max Value Routines
    • WHEN and ISRCH Routines
    • Blas and Linpack Routines
• Utility Programs
  • FLINT
    • Making Flint Quieter
    • Other Flags and Arguments
    • Bugs and Shortcomings
    • Determining the Intent of Subroutine Arguments
    • Interface Definition Libraries
  • RATTY
    • The Command
    • Language Extensions
    • Optimization Directives
    • Conditional Compilation Directives
• Image Items
• UV Variables
• Calling I/O Routines from C
• Installation Notes
• Index